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As a French woman who grew up in Paris and left it only two years ago, I must say all of you who see Paris as a a place more dechristianized than the rest of France are quite wrong. It is in fact the…

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This discussion reminds me the time when I was in some french equivalent of grad school and I prepared the hymns for the chaplaincy mass. One of my friends was perplexed because she thought Venez div…

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As a special collections librarian, I'd say exactly what Gamba said, except in the reverse order.

I'd do the following :
1. Assess what you have. Identify everything…

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The problem is basically not, from what I heard from my colleague, that high birth rates made people poor.

It's that those high birth rates were imposed by the clergy, often thro…

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Actually I had a colleague from Quebec a few years ago. He told me stories about his grandmother that were quite similar to those already told, except the humiliation happened in public. I don't…

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I don't know for the others, mais je n'ai aucun mal à utiliser des accents en français avec mon clavier français (azerty).

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There is also Arnaud Peruta's Chanter la messe, which I bought on La Procure website 1 year ago. Never used it though.

My current projects for my current parish is to pay for sin…

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French cathedral are property of the state and french parish churches are property of the towns (except for post-1905 buildings, which does include a few cathedrals).

But they are ass…

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I understand D. Saulnier thinks Goudesenne had the material for an interesting but less ambitious book, and he spoiled it by mixing all this material in an unproblematized, overambitious book that bo…

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J.-F. Goudesenne, in his book Émergences du Chant Grégorien : Les strates de la branche Neustro-insulaire (687-930), seems to consider that there was a roman influence in Ireland and England since a …

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A few notes on the French situation : here we are permitted congregational singing since public religious were allowed by the end of may (it depends on the diocese though, but the situation seems to …

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Nantes was not in the historical zone of the Vendée rebellion, even less it's heart. It was revolutionnary, divided between Girondins (moderate) and Montagnards (radical).

The Ven…

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About the two western towers of Notre-Dame, actually the way the rooftops are built indicates that spires were to be built over the towers in the 13th century but the construction never started. Ther…

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It's not evident that it was arson. The police are waiting for the experts from Paris.

What made them think about arson in the first place was that the fire started in three place…

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It seems the inside photograph I have seen is in fact the northern rose, saved too. The Virgin of the pillar and my beloved Virgin of the students both seem to be still there (from photographs).

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I have heard a very interesting explanation about why the offertory chant isn't mentioned in the missal. It was a priest, well acquainted in the two forms of the rite, and liturgy professor at t…

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